I'm so afraid I'll end up with big fake looking pontoons

My boobs still look like giant pontoons - but I'm still swollen (1st 2 months they'll look this way I've read). 

I was a 34 D going into PS - but most of that was skin.  If you have a lot of excess skin and he removes some of that, it may DRAMATICALLY reduce the size of your breasts.

My actual breast TISSUE remaining under all my skin was the size of walnuts.  (I had a mammogram of each breast because my OBGYN felt a "walnut sized mass" in each breast and worried they were tumors because I'd had tumors before.  Mammography of each breast reveiled these "walnuts" in each breast was just the only breast TISSUE I had left under all the skin.)  However, I wore a D cup because the D cup is what it took to hold all the extra skin.  (I'd just lift them up and pour them into each cup every morning.) 

As a big girl, I had been a 42 DDD, so when they did my breast lift and implants, they removed all the extra skin - leaving only enough to hold the implants they put in. 

I told my PS I wanted to be able to wear the same bra post-op that I wore to my pre-op consult - I just wanted the bra to be filled with actual BREAST as opposed to SKIN.  He did it perfectly because I do fit into the same bra.  (I have since changed bras to something more comfortable without the "lifting" help that the pre-op bra had in it because I don't need that anymore.  But size-wise, I do fit into the same bra.)

So if you are worried about being too big, do what I did.  Take a bra with you to your pre-op consult and say, as plain as day, "You see this bra.  I don't care how many cc's it takes or doesn't take.  I don't care what cup or implant size you call this.  I want to fit into this bra post-op."  They can totally do it.  (At least mine did!)

I had mine over the muscle to make sure that it didn't hinder future mammograms (tumor history in breast for me).  I don't know if that makes a difference with how close they can get to hitting the exact size you want or not. 

Good luck! 

Wen

Good advice Wen, thanks.

But... I'm only having a Benelli lift which only cuts around the aureole to lift and you can only take in so much skin, so in my case I can't go smaller.  It does make sense that if they are doing a major anchor lift reconstruction they can go smaller.

Okay Tamara You made me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those were my thoughts exactly I was so scared I mean I am asleep who knows what they will do... I remember when I woke up the first thing I did was grab for my boobs to see how big they were and I instantly panic'd becuz they were huge the nurse right away say calm down there is alot of cotton padding in there. WHEW I was scared for a minute.... Now I wish I had gone a size bigger I am a D but to me I look like a C but the bras I am buying are D's so must be.

I think whatever you want you just need to be forceful with your surgeon and tell them exactly what you want under the muscle or over that is your decision and I don't know why they wouldn't be able to make you a D.

I know it is scary - everyone told me to go bigger than what I thought but I too was scared of having porn star boobs I work with all men all the time and that was the last thing I wanted and now I hate to admit they were right my husband was right and I should have gone a little bigger but I can always wear bras that enhance it - it is just frustrating to have spent all that money and  still having to enhance it. I told the hubby maybe next time around in 15 years Ill get bigger ones then at age 60 LOL we both had a good laugh.

Best wishes to you I  know it is scary.

MO

Mo; I've seen your pics and your boobs are perfect, you only think they are too small because you live in LA!

Honestly. Zoe. I know someone with huge fake-looking pontoons, and frankly they don't seem to diminish her popularity.

Charming I so love your wit.  I'm not afraid of diminished popularity just being popular for the wrong reasons!

 . . . there are wrong reasons to be popular?

HAHA =)

 Don't laugh.  I spent the day thinking how  nice it might be to have ridiculous pontoons.